squirm
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Instead, each of the three attempted to squirm out of a simple yes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
It would be easy to take Emma’s confession as a simple cinematic provocation, a tone-deaf narrative device intended to make viewers squirm in their seats.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
Eight years later, he’s back in office, and giving soccer fans eager to watch the tournament this summer good reasons to squirm.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026
In her second year in a row as host, Nikki Glaser looked at ease in the job of making celebrities squirm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
“She doesn’t seem to like you, Hendrik,” Mother said as Nhamo tried to squirm out of her grasp.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
A new study from two University of Chicago scientists has revealed how HIV squirms its way into the nucleus as it invades a cell.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2024
The foot taps, the squirms in your seat, the arms thrown into the air with a mind of their own.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2023
Somehow he squirms his way to the safest harbor while everyone else scrambles.
From Salon ● May 15, 2023
Claireth Mendoza's six-year-old son Drake squirms in his mother's lap.
From Reuters ● Aug. 12, 2022
But the little girl squirms to look away, causing her parents to laugh with embarrassment.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
With each stride, I squirmed deeper into the Florsheims’ tapered toes in a vain effort to spare my chafing heels.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
I squirmed, then froze in my chair, trying to conceal my cringe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
“Mr. Patel was so anxious to take credit for finding Mr. Kirk’s assassin that he violated one of the basics of effective law enforcement,” Durbin explained as Patel squirmed.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2025
Miller and Ruffin were thrilled to find their missing cat, but as Ruffin carried Mr. Thelma across their scorched property on the way to their car, the feline squirmed and clawed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
Calder, smiling at the chalkboard, now squirmed in his chair with excitement at the thought.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
Mr. Warrack describes removing an approximately 3-foot-deep layer of pigeon excrement from Rome’s Church of SS Vincenzo e Anastasio, “which revealed a multitude of squirming horrors that even Hieronymus Bosch never dreamed of.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Do you enjoy squirming and stammering while Mr. Oldman gives you grief?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
He guides me inside a warehouse full of vast, bubbling water tanks and heaves out a haul of the squirming, long, thin black fish.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Paramount Skydance isn’t putting up too much of its own cash, but holy God is it adding a lot to the $14 billion in debt already squirming on its balance sheet.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026
“I get it, I get it,” said Kate, squirming in her seat.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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